Dee Sullivan

Cat woman, Realist, 2nd wave🦕 Agent #5257

[Dee Sullivan @DeeSullivan18]

When did feminism become a dirty word?

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[Dee Sullivan @DeeSullivan18]

@cervixen Thank you! 🎯

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

I agree that materialism can become problematic when it is reduced to “biology is destiny.”

That is not the materialist argument I'm making, but I understand how people attach essentialism or determinism to materialist analysis, and I think that is the danger you are pointing to. That is why I try to be precise.

The problem with queer theory is that it treats language, identity, and social recognition as if they should override material reality. It treats “social construction as destiny,” and that gender essentialist framing is as bad as biodeterminism. Defining women as female human beings is philosophically neutral. Defining women as the entity socially constructed from millennia of dehumanizing sexism directed at female humans is epistemologically hostile.

By materialism, I mean an analysis that starts from material conditions rather than ideology in a vacuum. Sex, embodiment, reproduction, labour, food, shelter, disability, poverty, violence, vulnerability, class, physical power, and technology all shape human existence whether we want them to or not. No amount of thinking can make those realities disappear.

A materialist analysis does not mean women are reducible to reproductive function, that social meaning is irrelevant, that socially constructed femininity is essential to the nature of women, or that male and female people are destined for particular biodetermined roles. That is the essentialism and determinism I oppose.

It means feminist politics cannot be built on denial of the material conditions under which female people live: menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, infertility, DSDs, menopause, domestic labour, care burdens, economic dependence, the wealth gap, bodily autonomy, personal agency, and vulnerability to male violence. These are human realities that must be accounted for in human rights law.

The physical world exists. The meanings we attach to it are socially constructed. That distinction matters. Reality exists whether we consent to it or not. Social constructions are only as fair as the society constructing them, and human society has not historically been fair to women and girls.

The social construction of sexism used to control women and girls cannot be used to define women and girls. It is obscene misogyny to define women by the stereotypes imposed on female human beings.

Sex is real. Gender is the social system built around sex. Feminism is not the denial of sex; it is opposition to the hierarchy, stereotypes, constraints, and exploitation imposed on female people because of sex.

And yes, I hate that women need protection from male violence. That should be a male problem to solve, not a female burden to manage. But hating that reality does not make it disappear.

Female-only spaces are not an endorsement of male violence. They are a defensive response, like a lock on the door. Locking your door does not mean you think every person is a thief or murderer. It means you recognise risk and take reasonable precautions.

The goal is not a world where women are permanently managed as a vulnerable population.

The goal is a world where women are free: free to participate fully in public, political, economic, artistic, intellectual, and private life without being threatened, intimidated, exploited, or constrained by male violence, sexism, oppression, male physical power, or men’s capacity to force pregnancy, disease, childbirth, and domestic servitude on women and girls against their consent and interests.

Acknowledging female vulnerability to male physicality does not mean the ability to create and nurture new human life. It means recognising a physical power imbalance that has shaped human law, culture, economics, sexuality, and women’s liberty. That power imbalance is precisely what feminism exists to oppose and correct.

Pretending sex does not matter does not liberate women. It removes the language needed to explain why sex-based protections exist and why they remain necessary.

[Frank Stephens @justrightFrank]

An illegal immigrant who arrives by dinghy admits that he's been working for the Taliban since he was 10.
He is put in to a hotel where he kidnaps and sexually assaults a 7 year old child.
British Justice gives him 2.5 years, he will serve about 18 months.
https://t.co/XbgkxsezHg

[𝑮𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𓍢ִ໋♡ @CopperCation]

Where to even start with this? ⬇️

A 12 yr old girl was allegedly gangraped at a birthday party but the boys, all aged just 11 to 12, got just a ONE WEEK suspension because they're too young for criminal charges.

The school initially expelled, then readmitted them. Now the victim and accused boys are back at school and the boys are currently separated from others specifically to avoid their "stigmatisation".

One guess as to where they're really from?

I just can't imagine what that little girl is going through 💔

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

So the Greens want to ban circumcision for babies, but massively support and promote chopping off schlongs in the name of 'authenticity'? Bonkers as per usual:
https://t.co/orkE8w94le

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

When @natty_ice2010 got kicked out of her running club right before the Boston Marathon because she dared to criticize the fact that Boston admits men into the women's category, I told her we'd start our own.

So we did. It's called the @xx_xyathletics Team Women Run Club.

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

The Slovak government is withholding an EU grant from an LGBTIQ+ NGO called Saplinq. The Commission is threatening other funds from going to Bratislava if they continue to block the grant.

Two years ago, Saplinq participated in an EU-funded "youth exchange" called Dragtivism, which featured a strip show in a Spanish gay bar where a minor girl danced topless on stage. The video was published on YouTube.

Seems like a good enough reason to me for withholding funds, to be honest
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[Margaret O' Shea @Margare27461789]

If siting in a wheelchair aged 5 years fed through a tube directly into the stomach with blinking the only means of communication and requiring night sedation to sleep at night is considered 'making great progress' then I would hate to see what poor progress would look like.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Women have been targeted for conditioning since the 1960's. Psychiatrists advised them against leaving their transvestite husbands, even when they were abusive. They often couldn't afford to divorce, anyway.

Third wave "feminism" came out of universities beginning in the 90's - shortly after Women's Studies programs were renamed to "Gender Studies." Gender being a term popularized by sexologists and psychiatrists, not feminists.

The first "gender clinics" opened at universities in the 60's. "Gender identity" was added to the DSM in 1980.

Which means even academic feminism was one of the last major institutions to embrace GI: after the APA, after universities, after the medical establishment - all dominated by men during the time.

The insult created by trans activists labels women "TERFs" - the wrong kind of feminist.

Most people who are punished for speaking out are women. Women are silenced across social media, banned, no-platformed from speaking events.

Most people who blame women or feminism for GI never talk about the role of porn, sexology, or the APA.

Which to me, reads like misogyny, rather than a nuanced perspective.

You'll rarely, if ever, hear such people talk about Arnold Lowman, Paul Allen Walker, Harry Benjamin, Stanley Biber, John Oliven, Volkmar Sigusch, Vern Bullough, Erwin Gohrbandt, John Money, Eli Coleman, Walter Bockting, or Mark Bowers, to name just a few.

It's just "What about Judith Butler?" on loop.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This really worries me

A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood

But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one

I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x

One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency

Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home

He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E

He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor

As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit

If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't

I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system

This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal

My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption

A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus

It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad

Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention

Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do

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[Sarah Holmes @sjholmesirl]

What are they thinking in Greystones, reading about gender identities to 4 year olds, why?

These children have only just heard of Santa Claus and they are being told they could be 'born in the wrong body' if they reject stereotypes.

[REDUXX @reduxx]

IRELAND: A trans-identified male was fired from a childcare center after offering a "kiss" to an 11-year-old child as a "prize."

Aleena Starshine later filed a discrimination claim against the center, and suggested the mother of the child was transphobic.
https://t.co/ao8gGswMrC

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

When men attempt to breastfeed a child in this manner, they are involving an INFANT in their sexual fetish.

Not a soul on Earth can convince me otherwise.

[Genspect @genspect]

"An Open Letter to the Surgeon Who Removed My Breasts.
I have lived every day for the last seven years with the physical and psychological wreckage you left behind. When I was fourteen years old, you took a scalpel to my healthy body and amputated my breasts.

I didn’t have the capacity to understand the permanence of what you were doing to me."

A heart rending read by Claire @burnyourbinder We are immensely grateful she chose to courageously share her vulnerability with us.

https://t.co/0nh0rwMtEQ

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

He shoved his fingers through her spandex, digitally penetrating her.

The victim shouted to her mom that his fingers were inside her "c**chie."

This is so disturbing. She's a 15-year-old girl & this young man assaulted her in public in a wrestling match.

[Sarah Holmes @sjholmesirl]

Here is the evidence BelongTo Primary School Pilot program has been done without the knowledge of or oversight of the Dept of education

serious questions need to be asked of the minister @1Hildegarde about a rouge NGO teaching primary children to believe in gender ideology

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

"offensive touching/penetration was a direct by-product of the game"

1. False - a boy disguising himself as a girl and then sexually touching an opponent during a girls' wrestling match is certainly not a by-product of girls' wrestling.

2. This creates a loophole in which any man can intentionally sexually assault a woman during a mixed or co-ed athletic event under the guise of it being "a by-product of the game"

They continue to disregard the safety and dignity of women and girls.

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

NEW: Prosecutors say they will not charge trans wrestler with alleged sexual assault of Kallie Keeler because of "case law concerning consent in athletic contests." If only the state of Washington had given Kallie the option to consent to being touched by a male.

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

Earlier this year, ILGA-Europe sent a memo to friendly members of the European Parliament urging them to defend legal sex changes for children as "human rights".

It doesn't look like lawmakers want anyone to know about their role in the trans scandal. Read more in the Weekly Peaked, see bio

[Dee Sullivan @DeeSullivan18]

Sue died in 1997 — and got her rapist convicted in 2026

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